SO MUCH YES. Even if I found them a tad oversensitive, I totally respected their right to decide to have a comm where there are strict rules about language some people find sexist or homophobic. Comics fandom is disgustingly misogynistic, and if comic book fans, especially female ones, want a safe space, they are more than entitled to it. In fact, I gleefully welcome it.
But in my opinion? Their ridiculous views about how you're allowed to talk about female characters IS disgustingly misogynistic. They behave like female characters cannot be treated the same as male characters, because they are sooooooo fragile and weak and delicate that if you make a joke about violence or death that would be PERFECTLY fine with a male character, you will completely traumatize all female users and utterly demolish the female character in question because she is obviously a worthless piece of fluff with no value as a character and who cannot survive a single joke. And when she's a widely-hated character, is she judged on her worth as a character? Nooooooo! She's judged on her gender. You can't insult a female character. No matter what a jackass she is, no matter what an annoying, worthless, boring character she is, no matter if you'd be ripping her to pieces and making hilarious hate-memes about her if she was male. Of course not! A woman should be judged only on her gender, not her personality, amirite?
*headdesk, headdesk, headdesk*
But it's perfectly fine to have long conversations and cracky hypotheticals about how you'd like to castrate and sodomize a male character for being a bit irritating. Yeah, that's perfectly fine. (I've literally seen conversations exactly like this there).
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But in my opinion? Their ridiculous views about how you're allowed to talk about female characters IS disgustingly misogynistic. They behave like female characters cannot be treated the same as male characters, because they are sooooooo fragile and weak and delicate that if you make a joke about violence or death that would be PERFECTLY fine with a male character, you will completely traumatize all female users and utterly demolish the female character in question because she is obviously a worthless piece of fluff with no value as a character and who cannot survive a single joke. And when she's a widely-hated character, is she judged on her worth as a character? Nooooooo! She's judged on her gender. You can't insult a female character. No matter what a jackass she is, no matter what an annoying, worthless, boring character she is, no matter if you'd be ripping her to pieces and making hilarious hate-memes about her if she was male. Of course not! A woman should be judged only on her gender, not her personality, amirite?
*headdesk, headdesk, headdesk*
But it's perfectly fine to have long conversations and cracky hypotheticals about how you'd like to castrate and sodomize a male character for being a bit irritating. Yeah, that's perfectly fine. (I've literally seen conversations exactly like this there).